Mining Technologies Innovative Development: Economic and Sustainable Outlook

ABSTRACT

[...]of the pandemic in 2020, prices for such raw materials as nickel, copper and coal showed a double-digit decline. The innovative development of mining technologies is also driven by the need for saturation the long-term demand for raw materials, the growth of which is attributed by experts to the “new industrialization” in BRICS countries, North Africa, South America, as well as to the large-scale digitalization and development of electric transport [3]. [...]the two aforementioned trends in the development of the global mining sector can be described as converging, due to the stimulating effect of climatic and pandemic factors on the long-term demand for raw materials. [...]we can talk about a consensus of views regarding the long-term prospects for demand for minerals, both in developed and developing countries, which is a positive factor in the development of technological modernization of the mining industry. [...]today, the role of people in the extraction of minerals is limited to the operating and maintenance of equipment with a highly specific capacity, which, on the one hand, can harm employees, and on the other, cause economic losses in the case of breakdowns due to the fault of personnel. [...]the development of technologies for ensuring labor safety at mining enterprises is closely related both to innovations in mining engineering and geotechnology and in the organization of mining operations.